Spectrum Computing

stupidget wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:55 amHeartland?

I'll be annoyed if it is Heartland because I thought that immediately this was posted. Then I took a quick look at the map and thought: "Nah.". But yeah, I still kinda think Heartland.

Never seen or played it but I’m gonna guess Shakin’ Stevens.

Morkin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:25 pmOoh - Batty?

Sure is!

Yes he does. Lol, yes, I went for a quick Google and found numerous links that are very likely to be Mr Fry. Likes a bit of gardening these days, too. :) But anyway... I sure didn't intend or wish to embarrass anyone for something they did approaching 40 years ago, or even if they still do it now: ...

Loving the self-important letters after names in the cassette, too. Do people still do this?! I did it for a few months after graduating, mid-1990s. Now, the memory of having done so makes me cringe!

5MinuteRetro, BSc.

Hurray. Next!

Stefan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:52 pm Have another tree:

Hyper Sports?

Dunno about frame rate locking, that's good in action games but when you're already running at pretty low frame rates it might not be entirely desirable. Not sure I agree. Consider Manic Miner: perhaps it could've run faster on some screens, or slower on others. Who knows? But would that have been ...

I’ve always respected the technological achievement that Knight Lore represented but damn if it wasn’t slow when there was a lot going on in a room. So, I wonder… using modern techniques / new understandings, could Knight Lore be rewritten to run much faster on original hardware. Sure, I know there ...

Thiis is fabulous. I wonder why we've never seen games like this (that I know of, at least)? But I agree with a previous comment here, that it has Sonic speed but with Mario mechanics... it's just a bit too tricky.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:40 pm Cliff hanger?

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...yes!

Surely this will give it away...

stupidget wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:39 am Fat Worm Blows a Sparky?

I do believe that game's Official Colour was green, so no.

Pobulous wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:28 amSentinel?

Nope. Okay, let's zoom out some more... getting very close to giving it away completely, I'd say.

GreenCard wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:07 am Stunt Car Racer?

Nope. Perhaps this is proving harder than I thought! Though admittedly, I anticipated at least some of the above guesses. I guess there were a lot of yellow games on the Spectrum.

Okay, plenty of guesses already -- so let's zoom out a bit.

Van_Dammesque wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:43 am Chronos?

No sir.

Robbeasy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:15 amQuazatron?

Also nope.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:08 am Contact Sam Cruise?

Nope.

Okay, next. I bloody loved this game, BITD. Think it holds up pretty well today.

namco wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:46 pm Clue: Written by a Spectrum YouTuber in 2010.

That’ll be Kid Cadet, then, by Paul Jenkinson.

(Edited cos I messed up!)

namco wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:46 pm Clue: Written by a Spectrum YouTuber in 2010.

That’ll be Maze, then, by Paul Jenkinson.

Grongy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:52 am Thanks! UriS recently did SPECScii art, his work is more impressive imo:

These are indeed spectacular. And the disco one is hilarious!

Maybe this one? Jumping Cross. Thanks, but no. It's the right year (1984... 85/86 at the *very latest*) but the game I'm trying to recall was purely top-to-bottom scrolling. I recall the mud being quite the obstacle, and it could properly slow you down. The game felt like a challenging 'slog', rath...

Did Macsen ever produce anything even halfway decent? I’m not sure it did.